Father saith, as Madge trudged away in her clogs after old Madge, her grandmother—
“Ah, rich Madge—not poor! May-be thine shall be the most abundant entrance of any in this chamber.”
I am at the end of my month, and as to-morrow I hand the book to Helen. But I dare not count up my two-pences, for I am feared they be so many.
Note 1. Complexion, at this date, signified temperament, not colour. The Middle Age physicians divided the complexions of mankind into four—the lymphatic, the sanguine, the nervous, and the bilious: and their treatment was always grounded on these considerations. Colour of skin, hair, and eyes, being considered symptomatic of complexion, the word was readily transferred from one to the other.
Chapter Seven.
Aunt Joyce tackles a Ghost.
“’Twas but one little drop of sin
We saw this morning enter in,
And lo! at eventide the world is drowned.”
Keble.